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Originally Posted by matthew330
"radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America." - Rosie O'Donnel
I kinda think Rosie was holding back a bit when she said this, but that's not the point. The point is, Will, you obviously agree with her....and that is as ignorant as ignorant can get. Any attempt at comparing Christianity to the OP is so far off base it can only be considered hatred for Christianity.
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I've never once been ignorant in my life. The reality is that you simply compared me to someone generally viewed to be stupid and didn't speak of any evidence or logical conclusions against anything specific I said. Besides this being a logical fallacy (something common in your posts), it's not even an argument. "You're wrong." is generally followed by something. Something other than an insult, that is. Do you have something to say, or will it just be baseless insults?
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Originally Posted by matthew330
You're such a terrorist Will, and you don't even know it.
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Baseless insults it is, then. I acquire and spread knowledge whereas religions spreads fear. Maybe you should rethink what terrorism really is.
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Originally Posted by matthew330
When I hear of 600 people calling publicly for the death of a schoolteacher who was there to teach their children, or an entire geographic area calls for the death of a cartoonist because something offended them...my immediate reaction is to use my years of psychological, sociological, and political training to put it into perspective.
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As someone who actually DOES have years of experience and education in the areas if psychology, I feel it necessary to question the validity of your claim as to having training in those fields. You've been posting on TFP even longer than I have, but I've never seen any evidence of such training.
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I won't ask because you've probably been poked in the eye by shards of glass from an exploding abortion clinic, and shot in the knee by a member of the KKK as you were walking by a church, but you seem willing enough to accept that the OP doesn't represent Islam, couldn't you at least give Christianity the same courtesy?
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That was of course my point. Just as the KKK and NLFT don't represent Christianity, these isolated incidents don't represent Islam. If you read all my posts in this thread, you should see that was my point from the get go. All religions have extremists in them, which do not represent the whole. To suggest that they do represent the whole is to ignore the fact that such a small percentage is radical. Out of the (estimated) 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, there are only a few thousand who are radical, and most of them live in deeply impoverished and war torn areas.